Join a dynamic team where your technical expertise shapes innovative solutions and advances your career. Make a meaningful impact by leading engineering initiatives and collaborating across teams.
As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Technology – Risk Technology team, you will lead the design and delivery of secure, scalable services with a strong focus on Python/Flask and APIs. You will drive business impact through hands-on engineering, architecture leadership, and disciplined use of approved AI-assisted development practices. You will collaborate with diverse teams and contribute to a culture of innovation and operational excellence.
Job responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and direction across engineering teams, partners, contractors, and vendors.
- Design, build, and operate Python-centric services (primarily Flask) and REST APIs, ensuring versioning, reliability, and performance.
- Develop secure, high-quality production code; conduct code reviews, debugging, and root-cause analysis.
- Lead system and architecture design, produce and maintain technical designs and engineering standards.
- Deploy and operate applications on GAIA Application Platform (GAP) (PaaS), leveraging platform services and tools.
- Build and operate on AWS (API Gateway, Lambda, S3, ECS/EKS) with strong security, observability, and operational readiness.
- Work with CockroachDB (CRDB) and SQL for schema design, query performance, and operational best practices.
- Perform data analysis and insight generation using Python and SQL to validate features, quantify impact, and produce business insights.
- Drive adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices with clear validation standards for correctness, performance, and security.
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Hands-on experience in system design, application development, testing, and production support.
- Strong Python development experience; strong Flask expertise building APIs.
- Strong knowledge of REST API design principles and best practices.
- Experience with GAIA Application Platform (GAP) (PaaS).
- Hands-on experience with AWS services including Lambda, S3, ECS/EKS, and API Gateway.
- Strong database and SQL fundamentals.
- Demonstrated strength in code reviews, secure coding, CI/CD, and operational excellence.
- Experience using enterprise-authorized AI tools for engineering and setting team controls for safe and accurate usage.
- Understanding of responsible AI usage in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity, secure handling, and resiliency expectations.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Familiarity with the Athena framework and related ecosystem (e.g., Hydra database), including applying standard patterns for building and operating services.
- experience with CockroachDB (CRDB) is preferred.
Skills Required
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts
- 5+ years of applied software engineering experience
- Experience with system design, application development, testing, and production support
- Strong Python development experience
- Strong Flask expertise building APIs
- Strong knowledge of REST API design principles and best practices
- Experience with GAIA Application Platform (GAP)
- Hands-on experience with AWS Lambda, S3, ECS/EKS, and API Gateway
- Strong database and SQL fundamentals
- Experience with code reviews, secure coding, CI/CD, and operational excellence
- Experience using enterprise-authorized AI tools for engineering and setting team controls for safe and accurate usage
- Understanding of responsible AI usage in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity, secure handling, and resiliency expectations
- Familiarity with the Athena framework and related ecosystem, including Hydra database
- Experience with CockroachDB (CRDB)
JPMorganChase Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is considered comprehensive, including medical, dental, and vision, alongside wellness and mental health resources. Some locations add onsite health centers and related wellbeing support.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k)-type savings plan and related financial benefits, with options such as employee stock purchase participation. Financial planning resources are also highlighted to support long-term savings.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave of 16 weeks for birth or adoption is available for all parents. Child care and back-up child care resources further reinforce family support.
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What We Do
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $3.7 trillion and operations worldwide. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Technology fuels every aspect of our company and is at the heart of everything we do. With over 50,000 technologists globally and an annual tech spend of $12 billion, we are dedicated to improving the design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming that goes into creating high quality software and new products. Learn more about technology at our firm, explore resources from our Distinguished Engineers, AI & ML researchers, and other experts; access the latest episode of our TechTrends podcast, and more at www.jpmorgan.com/technology. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at www.jpmorganchase.com. ©2023 JPMorgan Chase & Co. All rights reserved. JPMorgan Chase is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans.
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